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Webb wrote "Wichita Lineman" in response to Campbell's urgent phone request for a "place"-based or "geographical" song to follow up "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". [5]His lyrical inspiration came while driving through the high plains of the Oklahoma panhandle past a long line of telephone poles, on one of which perched a lineman speaking into his handset.
Colin James Hay was born on 29 June 1953 in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, Scotland to James and Isabela Hay. [2] In 1967, when he was 14, the Hays emigrated to Melbourne in Australia . [ 3 ] [ 2 ] His parents owned a small music shop; his father, a piano tuner, had been a stage singer and dancer in Glasgow .
The actual Wichita lineman was a real person we know little about. Webb remembered when traveling through the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas, seeing miles and miles of nothing but telephone poles ...
Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars; Carol Kaye – bass guitar; Hal Blaine – drums; Bob Felts – drums; Al Casey – acoustic guitar; Dennis McCarthy – piano; Joe Osborn – bass guitar; Jim Gordon – drums; Ray Pohlman – bass guitar; Jimmy Webb – organ on "Wichita Lineman" Production. Al De Lory – producer ...
The arrangements are generally very simple and straightforward, with Webb's piano the primary instrument, and several of the songs are performed in a deeply personal manner, more akin to home recording for Webb's own pleasure than to a commercial release—"Wichita Lineman", in particular, sounds here like the most personal and private of ...
Australian music legend Colin Hay, who was part of 1980s hitmakers Men At Work (“Down Under”) was Thursday awarded the honorary Ted Albert Award for outstanding services to Australian music at ...
He commissioned another song from Webb, who soon provided "Wichita Lineman", a "gorgeous, haunting piece of contemporary Americana full of longing, distance, loneliness, and resigned exhaustion." [ 1 ] In 1969, a third addition to the so-called "town songs" cycle, "Galveston", was equally compelling and impressive.
The album is a career-retrospective for Hay: he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work, and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay's solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog, while several others are remixes or re-recordings of material from his solo albums.